Low bow back Lincolnshire Windsor armchair stamped G Wilson Grantham with 3-piercing fleur de lys upper splat, single pierced lower splat, 6 long spindles, 6 short, turned underarms, straight seat sides, 2 ring legs with vase feet, H stretcher with darts,

Low bow back Lincolnshire Windsor armchair stamped G Wilson Grantham WS 27 

No doubt where this chair was made: G WILSON GRANTHAM is impressed at the rear of the seat and for good measure very similar to NE 69 on p. 126 of Dr B D Cotton’s The English Regional Chair (1990), though that chair has 4 short spindles either side rather than three.  Where Manthorpe Road stops at the traffic lights next to King's School Grantham there is a fuel station; this where the building stood in which this chair was made: the row of cottages opposite is where the men employed by Wilson lived. It was a big concern which made many chairs of various shapes and sizes, which explains why Wilson chairs are the most common of all Grantham chairs.

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